Chapter 200

Within hours of the end of my communication with rokosovsky, I kept in touch with Capt. chisjakov and Lt. Col. mlakintsev, who were conducting the battle in the city, through walkie talkie. Judging from the feedback, the situation is very favorable to us. In addition to the hot scene when the tank brigade killed dozens of German tanks at the beginning of the war, the German resistance in the rest of the time was very weak, even negligible. At the beginning, I was puzzled by this one-sided victory. You know, even if the German army was caught off guard by us, it would not be so vulnerable. I didn't know what was going on until chisgakov gave me the record of the prisoner's trial. It turned out that there was only one garrison with less than 800 soldiers from the beginning to the end of the city, and the dozens of German tanks that were targeted by the katukov tank brigade were temporarily parked in the south of the city because there was no fuel. The German army had planned to attack our army after replenishing fuel for the tanks the next day. Unexpectedly, the sudden attack of our division tonight would beat all these tanks to pieces. In this way, goodrian should cry. At five in the morning, rokosovsky spoke to me again and told me two things. First, the three residential areas occupied by priyev's cavalry troops withdrew in a hurry because they did not clear up the remnant enemy and leave the necessary troops and other new forces to hand over their defense. As a result, the remnant enemy occupied the residential areas again. Our army, which went to accept the defense, was fighting with the enemy in the residential areas. Second, Zhukov is very satisfied with the results of our division's offensive last night. He will contact you in person later. The primary task now is to transfer all the eighth division of the guards to Taiyangshan city and firmly guard the city. As for the original defense area, the 20th group army will send troops to take over the defense. Finally, he added that the 1077 regiment, under the command of general leviagin, has now begun to move in the direction of Taiyangshan city. It is estimated that it will enter the city around 7 a.m. After breaking contact with the commander, I began to give orders to the troops who were still in the original defense area. After receiving the order, commander sherebriakov of 1075 regiment immediately went to command the troops to move without saying a word. However, Lieutenant Colonel chernukov, acting as the head of the 1073 regiment, was full of nonsense. He also asked me repeatedly who would take over the existing defense area after all the troops were transferred. The reason why I carried out rokosovsky's transfer order cleanly was that I heard him say that it was the troops of the 20th group army, that is to say, the troops of general manager Lin, who were coming to take over the defense. According to my understanding of President Lin, after his troops accept the defense here, we can ensure that our division has no worries. The division troops began to enter Taiyangshan city at 8 a.m. By this time, the battle had already ended, and the enemy in the city was either killed or captured. Both chisgakov and mlakintsev began to set up defensive positions in their respective occupied areas to cope with the possible German counterattack after dawn. My headquarters also moved from the communication vehicle to a relatively complete building. When the signalman was still laying the telephone line, Zhukov contacted me through the walkie talkie. He asked aloud, "I said, Rita, what's the situation with you? Is there any German in the city?"“ Yes, senior general! " "But except for the captured, the rest are lying on the ground and have turned into cold corpses," I replied lightly For my humor, Zhukov was stunned for a moment, then laughed and praised me, saying, "Rita, you're so good! When you put forward this attack plan yesterday, I thought it was an unfinished task, so I didn't have much hope. But since your proposal coincides with the idea of the supreme command, even if it is impossible to achieve the goal, I can only let you have a try. I didn't expect that you were so lucky to take back the city at one stroke. I want to congratulate you I can't help but feel ashamed to hear what he said. The victory of this attack really has a lot of luck. If the city is heavily guarded by the German army, even with the strong support of general katukov's tank brigade, it is not easy to capture the city. Without waiting for me to speak, he went on to say, "because of your outstanding performance, the front army has submitted a report to the supreme command, suggesting that you be promoted to the rank of colonel and awarded the red flag medal to the rest of the commanders." At this point, he specially explained: "if you are a man, according to my authority, I can directly promote you to colonel. But because you have already exceeded the highest rank of a female soldier, you must report to the supreme headquarters if you want to be promoted. But you can rest assured that this is just a form. I believe that even Comrade Stalin, hearing of your great achievements, will agree to promote your rank. "